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From: lwall@netlabs.com (Larry Wall)
Subject: Re: Dear Programmrers,
 PERL seems the Language to go for. (I have used, BASIC, C, C++, TCL/TK,
 PASCAL).
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In article <3g77ao$6qg@www.interramp.com> Bob Munck <pp000166@interramp.com> writes:
: IMHO, perl rots.

Perl is biodegradable!  You heard it here first!    :-)

: I'd give a fairly important segment of my anatomy for an http
: server written in Ada, supporting cgi invokable functions also
: in Ada.  Ideally, it would contain or use a small, fast ERA
: database for lightweight hypertext structures.

Your world, and welcome to it.

Larry